The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-03-03
ABRAHAM OFFERING ISAAC.


International Sunday-schOol Lesson for
March 9, 1887.
Especially arranged from S. S. Quarterly.1
Gen. 22-14; commit verses 10-13.
I. And IL came to pass after these things that
God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him:
Abraham; and he said Behold, here an.
2. And He said: Take now thy son. thine only
son Isaac whom thou lowest. and get thee into
the land of Morah; and offer him there for q
burnt Offering upon one of the mountains which
will tell thee Of.
8. And Abraham rose up early in the morn
ing, and saddlcd his ass, and took two Of his
young men with him. and Isaac his son, and
clave the wood for the burnt Offering and rose
up. and went unto the place of which God had
told bm.
4. Then on the third day Abraham lifted up
his eyes, and saw the place afar off.
s. And Abraham said unto his young men |:
Abide We here with the ass: and and the lad
will go yonder and worship, and come again to
you.
8. And Abraham took the wood Of the burnt
Offering. and laid upon Isaac his son; and he
took the fire in his hand. and knife; and they
went both of them together.
Z. And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father,
and said: My father. and he said: Here am 1,
my son. And he said: Behold the fire and the
wood; but where is the lamb for burnt offer
ing?
8. And Abraham said: My son, God will pro-
vide Himself o lamb for u burnt offering; SO
they went both of them together.
9. And they came to the place which God had
told him Of; and Abraham built an altar there,
and laid the wood in order. and bound Isaac his
son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
10. And Abraham stretched forth his hand,
and took the knife to slay his son.
II. And the Angel of the Lord called unto him
out Of Heaven. and said: Abraham. Abraham
and he said: Here am 1.
IL. And He said: Lay not thine hand upon the
lad. neither do thou any thing unto him; for
now know that thou fearest God, seeing thou
hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from
Me.
10. And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and
looked and behold behind him a ram caught in
took the ram, and offered him up for burnt
Offering in the stead of his son.
IA. And Abraham called the name OF that
place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day,
the mount Of the Lord it shall be seen.
TIME-About B. c. 1871, twenty-siX years
after the last lesson.
PLAcE-Abraham had left Hebron; was
now living at Beersheba. The sacrifice
was on Mount Moriah, afterwards the site
Of the temple at Jerusalem.
ABRAHAM-Now 1876 years old, with two
sons; Ishmael, 80 years old, and Isaac per-
haps 25. He was living at Beersheba, %
miles southwest of Hebron.
IsAAC-Born at Beersheba. Josephus
says that he was twenty-five years old at
this time.
CONNECTING HIsToRY-After Abraham
had witnessed the destruction of Sodom,
he left that country, and went toward the
southwest, to the country of the Philis-
tines. Here he had the same trouble with
Abmelech that he had had in Egypt years
before. He finally settled in Beersheba
Isaac, his son, was born to him. Hagai
and her son, Ishmael, were driven away.
Abraham remained here a number of years,
till his son was almost grown up.
INTRoDUcTIoN-Now comes the greatest
trial of Abraham's life. He was command.
ed to sacrifice his son, by whom the prom
Use was to be fulfilled that lis seed should
be as many as the stars. 1t was test of
his obedience and faith. God did not in
tend to let him sacrifice his son, but stopped
it-not to encourage, but to oppose, human
sacrifices. We see Gods meaning only
when we see the end of the trial.
HELPS OVER HARD PLACEs-1. After THIS.
things: as described in the previous chapter
and Connecting History above. Tempt!
put to trial or test, not tempt in the sense
of inducing to do wrong. 9. Only son: the
only son of the promise, the only son oi
Sarah, the only son at home. Isaac means
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